In this episode of The Para Dressage Podcast we talk to two of Para Dressage's greatest friends, and competition rivals, former Team GB member Ricky Balshaw, and Team GB stalwart, and the Godfather of Para Dressage, Sir Lee Pearson CBE.

The recording was made using a different platform to one we usually use, so please excuse some minor sound issues. But enjoy the chat.

Continuing The Para Dressage Podcast's so far unrealised obsession with grade III athletes, in this episode we chat to Germany's Dr Angelika Trabert. We talk the earliest Para Dressage Paralympic debut in Atlanta 1996, taking medicine to Guinea, and being inducted in the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. 

Two years ago this week, the US Para Dressage team re-wrote the form book by picking up its first ever global championship medals, during the World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina. Leading that charge was Rebecca Hart, who won individual bronze and freestyle silver in Grade III.

In this episode of The Para Dressage Podcast she looks back on that moment, reflects on the stellar rise of Team USA, and talks about her early starts working for a world famous coffee chain.

This special bonus episode of The Para Dressage Podcast marks four years since the start of the Para Dressage competition at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Australia's grade IV rider Sharon Jarvis shares her memories of what it was like to compete at Rio. and at the Beijing 2008 Games. 

In this episode of The Para Dressage Podcast Canada's Bert Sheffield explains her British accent, tells how she was born in a horse box, and reveals a little gothy secret.

In this special launch episode of The Para Dressage Podcast, Para Dressage journalist Rob Howell talks to Natasha Baker MBE. They discuss Natasha's unforgetable Paralympic debut in London 2012, her successful defence of her titles four years later in Rio, and her skills as the maker of an awesome roast dinner.